The Transformation of the Environment in the Digital Age

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200901.026How to use a DOI?

Keywords

human, information environment, environment, digital age, information society, information and communicational technologies, intelligence, emotional intelligence

Abstract

This article analyses the features of the ongoing transformation of the environment impacted by human activities. It is noted that the artificially established digital environment is becoming a habitat of the modern human. In the context of the authors’ terminology, the natural environment is a first-order reality, the urbanized environment is a second-order reality, while the digital environment is a third-order reality. A third-order reality is ambivalent. On the one hand, it gives the human certain opportunities (educational, cultural, communicational and others), while, on the other hand, it carries a variety of risks (informational stress, cognitive decline etc.). It is the authors’ opinion that a gradual change in the intellectual portrait of humankind, which is characterized by emotional intelligence predominance, is becoming the most significant feature of digital environment impact on the human.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ekaterina Petrova
AU  - Ekaterina Gnatik
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/01
TI  - The Transformation of the Environment in the Digital Age
BT  - Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities - Philosophy of Being Human as the Core of Interdisciplinary Research (ICCESSH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 131
EP  - 134
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200901.026
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200901.026
ID  - Petrova2020
ER  -